Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge
@riceboilsover.bsky.social
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#TeamOrca. I live in the woods. Book collector. Former sociologist. Plant nerd. Fan of squirrels. #MaskUp because why would you want to be sick? #COVIDisNotOver and #COVIDisNotMild (she/her)
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nickfleisher.bsky.social
Where is the passive voice—even on the most expansive understanding of the term—supposed to be in that reply?
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
On Indigenous Peoples' Day I'm re-sharing the episode of @thisguysucked.com on which I spoke with host @ceaubin.bsky.social about why, even in his own day, people thought Christopher Columbus sucked.

💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #renaissance #maps #geography #cartography #empire 1/2
Christopher Columbus with Surekha Davies
Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 08/28/2025 · Subscribers Only · 1h
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novicsara.bsky.social
As a deaf person with a deaf kid, I'm the first to admit IDEA isn't perfect. I fight people's (often willful) misinterpretations of the Least Restrictive Environment every day. Just gave a lecture at BU about how change is needed. Deleting all legal oversight in the middle of the night isn't it.
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jamellebouie.net
i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.
atrupar.com
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
Also, they’re still not bringing back those SpEd overseers. This is a bandaid on a bullet hole, and the bandaid is also branded and made unethically.
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
I’m glad, but make no mistake: rerouting funding to an organization means they are washing their hands of administering this.

Meaning if there’s abuse, they will not be investigating. Meaning this is yet another step towards privatization of education, particularly for disabled students.
propublica.org
NEW: Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.
Education Dept. Reverses Decision to Halt Funds for Deafblind Student Programs
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.
www.propublica.org
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elhopkins.bsky.social
None of this considers clinically vulnerable people and #COVID.
How can we mask? There is no recognition of airborne threat, security and facial scanning has been prioritised over biohazard risk.
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect
Exclusive: Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100 per cent EES checks on day one
www.independent.co.uk
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nukit.bsky.social
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A woman at a desk adjusting the power on an air purifier that looks like a PC tower.
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itsmeio.bsky.social
It’s a terrible feeling to have genocide take away even your education. 😔
Ruba, my neighbor in the camp, is a pharmacy student who had to stop studying after her sick father passed away. She needs $500 for the missed semester and $500 for the next one.
Please chip in lets give a girl some hope.
mommunism.bsky.social
Ruba is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social whom I’ve shared, has social media in Gaza that predates the war and sent me a photo of her Palestinian ID.

Ruba has been volunteering at medical clinics while also trying to complete her studies. She wants to continue studying and help her family.
Support Ruba: A Pharmacy Student’s Survival in Gaza
Hello, everyone. I’m Casey York and I live in the U.S.. I have created this fundraiser on behalf of my close friend, Ruba, as she is in Gaza and unable to create one for herself because GoFundMe does ...
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jaimekay.bsky.social
Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC
www.niwrc.org
riceboilsover.bsky.social
I thought Not A Nation of Immigrants by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was really eye-opening!
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stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social
Reading request! If you could recommend one text that explored the history of an idea/concept in a riveting and surprising way what would it be? Please re-skeet if you can. I know this is a niche ask.
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
It’s worth noting that when he decided to speak out about his unconstitutional ICE detainment, DHS accused him of assault.

They lie.

They blame the victims.

George did nothing wrong. He was just trying to get to work and was hit with chemical munitions and detained for three days.
tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
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unraveledpress.com
People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.
unraveledpress.com
There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.
Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole No ice in sidewalk chalk Rapid responder posing with whistle Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.
FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_
riceboilsover.bsky.social
Not surprising given that the Atlantic is owned by Steve Jobs’s widow who also owns this yacht:
A monstrous white yacht with a boxy, modernist shape that looks vaguely like a museum had a baby with a cassette player. It would probably take a superpod of orcas to capsize it.
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kristenimmoor.bsky.social
Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
6 people were killed and 12 injured in two separate homecoming shootings in Mississippi yesterday.

Today 4 people are dead and 20 injured after a shooter opened fire on Willie’s Bar and Grill in South Carolina.

No flags will be lowered. No speeches will be given. The gun laws won’t change
4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said.
www.wral.com
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1wag.bsky.social
In this case, they attacked the press the day after a federal restraining order telling them to stop attacking the press.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press
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unraveledpress.com
Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."
riceboilsover.bsky.social
Why are people in school district administrations so susceptible to cold calls from scammy edtech firms anyways?
riceboilsover.bsky.social
Y’all they did not even bother to redirect the old URLs to the new pages when they redid the site…it was an epic shitshow for weeks!